Monday February 07, 2005
Monday February 07, 2005 Airplane wrecks Spend some time researching local aviation disasters. There's something very emotional about standing on the site of an aviation disaster. It's amazing how little can be left of a large airliner that hits the ground at 200 mph. The fragility of those craft is something to respect. The biggest bay-area disaster was the United DC-6 that hit Tolman Peak near Fremont in the 60's. I was up there but couldn't find any trace. I have 2 friends that have crashed their aircraft, a third who died. Dave used his parachute over Altamont, broke a few vertibrae. Lynn stall-spun on the test flight of an experimental racer. Wayne was filming a movie and turned his ag-cat into the wrong canyon. Several other friends have landing-light souveniers in their hangars. Bill cartwheeled spectacularly at the Moffet show last year and walked away from it (god bless Curtis Pitts). My closest call was aileron flutter over TCY that broke the wing-attach, bent 2 pushrods, and cracked 2 spars. Good thing the runway was 3000 ft away ;-) ( Feb 07 2005, 09:00:54 AM PST ) Permalink Comments [2]
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Posted by Alan Burlison on February 07, 2005 at 09:45 AM PST #
I add this comment mostly for interest sake and I will limit the story to the bare facts.
My wife and I are hill-walkers; four years ago we ascended Ben Lui near Tyndrum in Scotland and on making our way back we were overtaken by four young men. I spoke but they did not reply and were dressed in gear relating to air-crew of the second world war except one who struck me more as a motor-cyclist some what. They passed us walked as far as the bend in the path and disappeared.
We thought no more of this until two years later we were told by a woman who had lived in Tyndrum that a plane had crashed there during the war. I got on the computer and sure enough found the information regarding the crash which entailed the death of four of a crew.
I do believe now, not then, that this was something spiritual of some kind. The experience
is basically the bones as there is more detail and anyone who has had something similar can get in contact at the above e-mail.
Ron.
Posted by Ronald Mudie on July 09, 2008 at 11:50 PM PDT #